originally published 2010
Public swim session at the community pool
Azure liquid thinned by pee and drool
Beckons a dinky passerby
Choked by grot collar
And ‘can I help you’ tie
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Lopped supple flesh from curtain rail of bone
A gleam convulsion such must have been Rome
Yakking slaphappy with
Sebaceous lip resting
On artfully forged teeth
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Languid the middle class "kapdia" beats
Thick redolence of sun screen and arm-pits
Poaches the moment into
Dauby mush to plaster
Over orthodox mildew
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To crawl into barbed pith of stacked up hay
Down a flask and slumber through the day
Fortune upon a virid
Phosphorescent clod inhale
Fumes blooming over it
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Bantling bewails chaste cruelty of art
Never a loving mother at best a torpor tart
Schematics of chance
Failed one’s better off
Planning in advance
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Reposed in deckchairs suburbanites tranquil
Having discovered cure for Achilles’ heel
Sip common phantom
Of blissful surety excreting
‘We’re in this together’ foam
